Gish Jen is the author of three novels and one short story collection. Her most recent book is the novel The Love Wife (2004). She has received fellowships from Lannan Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fulbright Foundation, and was a Writer-in-Residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Currently she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.